Loggan
Log″gan (?), n. See Logan.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Loggat
Log″gat (?), n. [Also written logget.] 1. A small log or piece of wood. B. Jonson.2. pl. An old game in England, played by throwing pieces of wood at a stake set in the ground. ...
Logge
Logge (?), n. & v. See Lodge. Chaucer.
Logged
Logged (?), a. Made slow and heavy in movement; water-logged. Beaconsfield.
Logger
Log″ger (?), n. One engaged in logging. See Log, v. i.Lowell.
Loggerhead
Log″ger‐head′ (?), n. [Log + head.] 1. A blockhead; a dunce; a numskull. Shak. Milton.2. A spherical mass of iron, with a long handle, used to heat tar.3. (Naut.) An upright pie...
Loggerheaded
Log″ger‐head′ed, a. Dull; stupid. Shak.A rabble of loggerheaded physicians. Urquhart.
Loggerheads
Log″ger‐heads′ (?), n.(Bot.) The knapweed.
Loggia
‖Log″gia (?), n. [It. See Lodge.] (Arch.) A roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice ...
Logging
Log″ging (?), n. The business of felling trees, cutting them into logs, and transporting the logs to sawmills or to market.
Logic
Log″ic (?), n. [OE. logike, F. logique, L. logica, logice, Gr. λογική (sc. τέχνη), fr. λογικόσ belonging to speaking or reason, fr. λόγοσ speech, reason, λέγειν to say, speak. S...
Logical
Log″ic‐al (lŏj″ĭ‐kal), a. [Cf. F. logique, L. logicus, Gr. λογικόσ.] 1. Of or pertaining to logic; used in logic; as, logical subtilties. Bacon.2. According to the rules of logi...
Logicality
Log′i‐cal″i‐ty (?), n. Logicalness.
Logically
Log″ic‐al‐ly (?), adv. In a logical manner; as, to argue logically.
Logicalness
Log″ic‐al‐ness, n. The quality of being logical.
Logician
Lo‐gi″cian (?), n. [Cf. F. logicien.] A person skilled in logic. Bacon.Each fierce logician still expelling Locke. Pope.
Logics
Log″ics (?), n. See Logic.
Logistic
{ Lo‐gis″tic (?), Lo‐gis″tic‐al (?), } a. [Gr. � skilled in calculating, � to calculate, fr. λόγοσ word, number, reckoning: cf. F. logistique.] 1. Logical. Berkeley.2. (Math.) S...
Logistics
Lo‐gis″tics (?), n. 1. (Mil.) That branch of the military art which embraces the details of moving and supplying armies. The meaning of the word is by some writers extended to i...
Logman
Log″man (?), n.; pl.Logmen (�). A man who carries logs. Shak.
Logodædaly
Log′o‐dæd″a‐ly (?), n. [Gr. �. See Logos, and Dædal.] Verbal legerdemain; a playing with words. Coleridge.
Logogram
Log″o‐gram (?), n. [Gr. λόγοσ word + -gram.] A word letter; a phonogram, that, for the sake of brevity, represents a word; as, |, i.e., t, for it. Cf. Grammalogue.
Logographer
Lo‐gog″ra‐pher (?), n. 1. A chronicler; one who writes history in a condensed manner with short simple sentences.2. One skilled in logography.
Logographic
{ Log′o‐graph″ic (?), Log′o‐graph″ic‐al (?), } a. [Gr. � of writing speeches: cf. F. logographique.] Of or pertaining to logography.
Logography
Lo‐gog″ra‐phy (?), n. [Gr. � a writing of speeches; λόγοσ word, speech + � to write: cf. F. logographie.] 1. A method of printing in which whole words or syllables, cast as sing...
Logogriph
Log″o‐griph (?), n. [Gr. λόγοσ word + γρι̑φοσ a fishing net, a dark saying, a riddle: F. logogriphe.] A sort of riddle in which it is required to discover a chosen word from var...
Logomachist
Lo‐gom″a‐chist (?), n. [See Logomachy.] One who contends about words.